Emile M. Cioran Is Quotations

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.